Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
| I'm still not sure how you're justifying gradients being the same as
| colors. They're not, in any way, as I, Brad, and several others in
| other circumstances have said. They're an image.
Consensus can be illogical. There are many cases where application of both background linear-gradient and background-image would be useful; there are none where background-color and linear-gradient would need to apply simultaneously. Logically, then, linear-gradient is more akin to color than image. Equating gradient with image lessens its usefulness.
David Perrell